A Vision towards Liberation

Towards a Cognitive Vision System

This article motivates the study of a ‘cognitive vision system’ as a computational process which transforms a video signal into a natural language text describing the spatiotemporal development within a recorded scene. It offers a coherent view on publications by members of the Forschungsgruppe Kognitive Systeme, covering more than a decade of research with the aim to explore design, implementa...

Towards The Liberation Of Managed Human Life.1

Traditional critiques of the sciences and social sciences from within process studies have argued that since they are premised on Newtonian reductionist conceptualisations of thought for the purpose of simplification, these disciplines have little to offer in terms of furthering the meaningful development of life in the 21 Century. What I shall be doing in this paper is demonstrating that such ...

Towards a General Vision System

We define what we take to be a general vision system in terms of tasks to be performed by such a system and modules which can be combined to achieve these tasks. In increasing order of difficulty, the tasks that might be required of a general vision system are as given in Table 1. The tasks range from recognition, the simplest, to the intuitive discovery and analysis of new or unknown objects. ...

Towards manipulation-driven vision

For the purposes of manipulation, we would like to know what parts of the environment are physically coherent ensembles – that is, which parts will move together, and which are more or less independent. It takes a great deal of experience before this judgement can be made from purely visual information. This paper develops active strategies for acquiring that experience through experimental man...

Ushahidi as a Liberation technoLogy